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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






2. When does BMR decrease?






3. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






4. What function is vitamin D?






5. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






6. Where can you get more vitamin D?






7. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






8. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






9. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






10. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






11. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






12. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






13. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






14. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






15. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






16. What is normal BMI?






17. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






18. What is the function of vitamin E?






19. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






20. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






21. What is normal albumin levels?






22. What are healthy sources of fats?






23. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






24. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






25. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






26. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






27. What is the function of vitamin C?






28. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






29. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






30. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






31. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






32. What type of people need extra protein?






33. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






34. What does DASH stand for?






35. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






36. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






37. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






38. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






39. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






40. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






41. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






42. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






43. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






44. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






45. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






46. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






47. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






48. What function is vitamin A?






49. Name six sources of grains






50. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?